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If people are unskilled they are often unable to find work, which means they have no means of supporting themselves and their families. The result can only be poverty. By offering training, we can help individuals and families to escape the poverty trap, as well as allow them to restore a measure of dignity. The charity has been involved in several work creation schemes:
- Ukuthasa provided a start-up grant to enable a greetings-card enterprise called Khulani Cards, in the deprived area of Guguletu, to get off the ground.
- The charity provided funding for a sewing project and computer skills training course in Khayelitsha, the largest township area in the Western Cape, near Cape Town.
- Ukuthasa invested in the Ubuhle jewellery project, also in Khayelitsha. This is a local employment creation scheme supporting three women in the production and selling of African jewellery in local markets.
- The charity has helped a man called Sam Makhasi to get his Lwandle-based beadwork business up and running. Ukuthasa sources supplies for him and provides orders for beadpins mostly HIV awareness pins and South African flags. As Sam’s only source of income, the Ukuthasa funding has enabled him to create a business he can be proud of. Before moving into his new home, also funded by Ukuthasa, Sam could only work outside during the day because he needed proper light by which to do his beadwork. Now he has electricity and a table and can work whenever he needs to.
Ukuthasa’s support of projects like these relies on funding being available.
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